Bloomberg A video from a drone that flew within feet of an airliner over Las Vegas and prompted outrage on the internet has spurred three influential US aviation lobbies to call for tighter regulations on hobby drones. Legislation exempting certain hobbyist drone pilots from oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration has hampered the aviation agency’s ability to oversee safety of ...

Bloomberg Supersonic jetliner travel, which ended more than a decade ago with the Concorde, will make a comeback and transform the aviation industry in coming years, according to billionaire Richard Branson. “The next big thing, hopefully in my lifetime, will be supersonic travel coming back and people travelling around the world in next to no time,” Branson told Bloomberg Television ...

Bloomberg Two days before Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA discloses its results for 2017, Chief Executive Officer Bjorn Kjos has called the year “a mess” for the carrier after it was hit by plane and pilot shortages at the height of summer. Norwegian was forced to ground more than 10 Boeing Co. 737 Max jets due to engine snags, delaying operations ...